Before talking about this film, we must accept some impossible assumptions, including: a group of minors with an average age of 15 or less can challenge adults all over the world and occupy a small island for several years. It has not been wiped out; a group of middle school students can use those weapons as freely as veterans after only touching the guns for a few hours; a large number of well-trained professional soldiers were beaten up by a dozen or so people with seven or eight guns. The army was defeated; two little kids, each with a gun, could cut a bloody path in the heavy siege of ground troops and aerial carpet bombing, and could quickly rendezvous with the same miraculously surviving companions in the car, dressed up ...If you accept these assumptions, then the following discussion will have some meaning; if you don't accept it, then there is basically nothing left in this film. Different from the starting point of the first one, which is deeply digging into human nature, the conception of this one seems to be more lofty, leaning on world peace with enthusiasm. I also mentioned Afghanistan and took pictures of the innocent smiling faces of children who have suffered from the war. This means that adults irresponsibly mess up the world and make minors suffer. In the end, they have to rely on minors to clean up the mess. The idea is good, but the focus seems to be problematic. The contradiction between adults and minors, which appeared only as a background setting in the first part, has become a vigorously rendered thing in this part. The director seems to want to exert his efforts from here, but it makes people feel that it is not so back. thing. Adults who hold power are afraid that the grown-up minors will seize power, and they have no place to bury themselves; minors cannot understand the conservative and depravity of adults, and hope to transfer power as soon as possible. This contradiction has existed in ancient times. It is, and it keeps circulating. But magnifying this contradiction to this level is still shocking and unacceptable. Moreover, since the contradiction between the two generations is emphasized so much, how should we deal with family affection? Therefore, in the context of the conflicts between the two generations, the teacher's love for his daughter and Kitano's guilt for his dead father seemed a bit embarrassing. The film also has a strong anti-American tendency. It portrays the prime minister's pro-American and fearful attitude toward the United States, as well as multiple exploding skyscrapers that apparently allude to the US 9/11, all showing this mentality. Combined with the plot about Afghanistan, it can be seen that the so-called anti-war in this film is actually anti-American. The contradiction between adults and minors is just a fable. Adults are America, and minors are Japan. In the final analysis, the intention of the creators is to express the hope that Japan can break free from the shackles of the United States and become an independent "adult". The character setting is also far less rich and delicate than the first one. The protagonist either has a sullen face and a deep hatred, or stares and yells. Pass, shoot randomly, or simply dress up as Bin Laden to recite sentences that explore the meaning of life. The supporting actors failed even more. Except for Shintaro, who preferred to die at first, none of them left a slightly deep impression. So when they died, no matter how sensational the music was, and no matter how sad the protagonist was, the audience felt very numb. The teacher in this movie is even more inexplicable. At first, he put on an expression of constipation for a few months, and then broke with BR2 law somehow, put on sportswear to reminisce with the students, and ended up very heroic and boring. He was sacrificed, in short, he was a very unreliable guy, far less impressive than the lonely middle-aged man who played the character of Takeshi Nakakitano in the first film. In short, this is a work of a dog-tailed mink—you can only use this before you find a more mutated word. If you like the first part, you don’t have to watch the second part, or just watch the second part to know how good the first part is.
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